Manuel Leguineche Bollar, better known as Manu Leguineche, (28 September 1941 – 22 January 2014) was a Spanish
correspondent
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,
journalist
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Roles
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and writer. He was born in
Arratzu
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,
Biscay
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. He was one of the contributors of ''
Doblón
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'' magazine from 1974 to 1976.
He founded the Spanish news agencies
Colpisa and
Fax Press. He divorced from
Rosa María Mateo.
He was the inaugural winner of the
Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award in 1984.
He died on 22 January 2014 in Madrid from an illness.
Selected works
* ''The forgotten men'' (1981) (with
Jesús Torbado). Published originally in Spanish as ''Los topos'', 1977)
* ''Los años de la infamia: crónica de la II Guerra Mundial'' (1995)
* ''Adiós, Hong-Kong'' (1996)
* ''Annual, 1921'' (1997)
* ''Apocalipsis Mao: una visión de la nueva China'' (1999)
* ''La felicidad de la tierra'' (1999)
* ''Recordad Pearl Harbor'' (2001)
* ''Gibraltar'' (2002)
* ''Madre Volga'' (2003)
References
External links
Manuel Leguineche's personal page(in
Spanish
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Biography of Manuel Leguineche(in
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
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)
Works of Manuel Leguineche
1941 births
2014 deaths
Recipients of the Order of Constitutional Merit
Spanish journalists
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